Why Would Tippit Leave Himself a Sitting Duck For An Armed Cold Blooded Killer ?

[John Mytton]

Police are the perfect assassins & the perfect victims of assassination
Both circumstances can be owed up to their chosen profession .
Policemen are murdered all the time and nobody would ever question it happened for any other reason than the uniform they are wearing.

The Dallas Police Department Memorial Page shows that between 1951-1967 only 3 Police Officers died from gunfire and another 3 from vehicle crashes.


https://www.odmp.org/agency/924-dallas-police-department-texas

JohnM

[Jim Hawthorn]

This notion of Tippit being in Ruby's inner circle is very interesting. What is the evidence of that? (Does this deserve a separate thread?).

[John Iacoletti]

FWIW, in my teens in the 1960s I was stopped by police in Arizona a sufficiently embarrassing number of times that I had to provide an explanation to the State Bar when I became a lawyer in 1982. At no time did any officer approach me as though I might be a crazed killer.

That requires being a minority.

[John Iacoletti]

Dale Myers specifically addresses this issue at the Tippit memorial site: https://www.jdtippit.com/faq.htm

In the FAQ "Why did Tippit stop Oswald?" he takes us through the witnesses who support that Oswald abruptly changed direction from west to east and that this caught Tippit's eye.

It's purely contrived.  Not only was Helen "Utter Screwball" Markham the only witness who claimed that the man was walking East (there's no good reason to believe Tatum was even there), nobody saw this alleged "direction change", nor did anybody (in particular Scoggins and Markham) see the man go by twice.

[Bill Brown]

I don’t think that there is any way we will ever know for certain what caused Tippit to pull over. But Dale Myers does make a good case for that theory. I have also imagined this: provided Dale is right about the direction of LHO walking west, it appears to me that the taxi cab parked on the corner would have been prominent in LHO’s vision as he approached it. A theory that includes LHO either raising his hand to hail the taxi or LHO beginning to run towards the taxi, or both, in an effort to try to make sure that the taxi didn’t leave before he got there, could have gotten Tippit’s attention. Tippit might have even thought LHO was raising his hand as a gesture for Tippit to pull over. But, again, I don’t beleive that we will never know these things for certain.

Fair points.